T.O Lands With The Bills
Here is the good, the bad and the ugly:
Good, TO is what I call a flexible player, what that means is he can play on the strong side of a formation, the weak side of a formation, in the slot, off motion. He is big, around 6′3 and still moves well. When you look at the other 3 WRs who play for the Bills like Evans, Reed and Parrish, they are 5′10 at best, so he brings size, but back to the flexible comment …
When you have a player who can play in all these different positions, he makes it easier on the offensive coordinator to create matchups. Now, that matchup may be for TO or it might be for Evans, Reed or Parrish. A lot of that depends on defenses and how they choose to defend the Bills. So from that perspective, he brings a lot of options to them. But that leads us to the bad.
Let’s say the matchups they are creating favor Evans or Reed or Parrish and after 3 weeks, TO has 5 catches? How does he handle that, and just for sits and giggles the Bills are 3-0? How does he handle that? Or let’s say Week 2 he has only one catch and he feels that he was open several times but Trent Edwards didn’t throw to him, then what? It could get ugly very fast in Buffalo.
That is why I think the Bills’ coaches have got to establish a line of communication between TO, Edwards and the rest of the team so that they can avoid scenes like the TO-Donovan McNabb one in Philadelphia or the ones we have seen in Dallas. The real key for TO should be to help Buffalo win, but if his focus is, ‘I need to get 90 to 100 catches so I can get one more big deal,’ it could get really ugly in Buffalo. If it’s truly about helping the Bills win, and they do, it could be very good in Buffalo.
LT to New Orleans?
It might be a pipe dream but if it were to come true, the biggest winner would be Reggie Bush for the Saints and here is why: There is nothing better for a young player than to watch a seasoned veteran who knows how to prepare and play. The area LT would help Reggie the most is how you need to run in this league. I was taught by one of the best, if not the best teaching coaches in our history and that was Chuck Noll. He used to tell us that if you want to get that 20-yard run or that 40-yard TD run, then take the 1-yard runs and the 2-yard runs. His point: when you take those tough runs early in the game, you set yourself up for the big ones later in the game, and man was he right.
Reggie is so used to getting big runs; he has not yet learned the value in getting that 1 or 2-yard gain. LT will teac h him that and also take pressure off Reggie to be an every-down back which he is not right now. Although I still think LT is one of the best runners in the NFL, he is also one of the best 3rd down backs, but that would be Reggie’s job a big portion of games and that would help LT get the most out of what is left in his tank. Saints fans keep dreaming, and Chargers fans hope that nightmare does not happen.
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